Genocide was committed too many times. The time in Cambodia was very gruesome. Approximately 2.3 million people were tortured and murdered. 2.3 million men, children, women, fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, sisters, and mothers all killed for no reason.
The word genocide wasn't a word before 1944. The word genocide was then used after the holocaust. A Polish/Jewish lawyer named Raphael lemkin created this word to emphasize the Nazis killing Jewish people. The word genocide refers to violent acts of someone's religion or race with the intent to destroy or get rid of. Later in 1945 with lemkin’s efforts, genocide was included in the International Military Tribunal(IMT). I.M.T. charged Nazi officials for “crimes against humanity”. In 1948 …show more content…
She lost both her parents and five siblings during Pol Pot’s regime, and this is her story. In 1969 a man by the the of Viet Cong invaded cambodia when she was only four years of age. Her family was forced to leave and moved around Cambodia during this she lost both her brothers due to lack of medical care. When Rouge was in power in 1975, her family was forced to go to a labor camp. When they arrival her father was killed because he was an educated person. The rest of family had to agricultural work and they only had a small amount of food. They were punished because they work caught trying to grow their own food. Two more of her siblings and her mother died because of being sick. Later her older sister died,”Part of me was angry and I wondered why didn’t the world care? Why didn’t the world do something to help us” (Him). When the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia in 1979, Him was moved to a refugee camp, where some of them could work and study. Soon her uncle seng who left the country before the genocide began heard that they were in camps. So he got his family U.S citizenship and brought his family to the U.S to start a new …show more content…
His name was Hun Sen, but Cambodia was still being overrun by guerrilla warfare. A lot of Cambodians became refugees, there was hundreds of thousands of them. They just didn’t want to be in Cambodia anymore so a lot of families got on boats and sailed into the ocean. They knew the Americans were going to save them. But then in 1991 a peace agreement was signed in Paris. Sihanouk became king again in 1993 because the monarchy was restored. In 1997, Hun Sen didn’t like how things were going so he started an uprising against the Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, and replaces him with Ung Huat (“Cambodia Profile-Timeline.”) In 2001 a lot of things changed because, they wanted to bring genocide charges against Khmer Rouge Leaders. This was passed because now there was a law declaring these activities illegal. In 2014 they finally put two senior Khmer Rouge leaders in prison (“Cambodia Profile-Timeline.”) This was because their roles that they did that swept the country in the 1970’s. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were the ones who were put in
The word genocide wasn't a word before 1944. The word genocide was then used after the holocaust. A Polish/Jewish lawyer named Raphael lemkin created this word to emphasize the Nazis killing Jewish people. The word genocide refers to violent acts of someone's religion or race with the intent to destroy or get rid of. Later in 1945 with lemkin’s efforts, genocide was included in the International Military Tribunal(IMT). I.M.T. charged Nazi officials for “crimes against humanity”. In 1948 …show more content…
She lost both her parents and five siblings during Pol Pot’s regime, and this is her story. In 1969 a man by the the of Viet Cong invaded cambodia when she was only four years of age. Her family was forced to leave and moved around Cambodia during this she lost both her brothers due to lack of medical care. When Rouge was in power in 1975, her family was forced to go to a labor camp. When they arrival her father was killed because he was an educated person. The rest of family had to agricultural work and they only had a small amount of food. They were punished because they work caught trying to grow their own food. Two more of her siblings and her mother died because of being sick. Later her older sister died,”Part of me was angry and I wondered why didn’t the world care? Why didn’t the world do something to help us” (Him). When the Vietnamese army invaded Cambodia in 1979, Him was moved to a refugee camp, where some of them could work and study. Soon her uncle seng who left the country before the genocide began heard that they were in camps. So he got his family U.S citizenship and brought his family to the U.S to start a new …show more content…
His name was Hun Sen, but Cambodia was still being overrun by guerrilla warfare. A lot of Cambodians became refugees, there was hundreds of thousands of them. They just didn’t want to be in Cambodia anymore so a lot of families got on boats and sailed into the ocean. They knew the Americans were going to save them. But then in 1991 a peace agreement was signed in Paris. Sihanouk became king again in 1993 because the monarchy was restored. In 1997, Hun Sen didn’t like how things were going so he started an uprising against the Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, and replaces him with Ung Huat (“Cambodia Profile-Timeline.”) In 2001 a lot of things changed because, they wanted to bring genocide charges against Khmer Rouge Leaders. This was passed because now there was a law declaring these activities illegal. In 2014 they finally put two senior Khmer Rouge leaders in prison (“Cambodia Profile-Timeline.”) This was because their roles that they did that swept the country in the 1970’s. Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were the ones who were put in